2 Kings 15:19
19 aPul ▼▼Another name for Tiglath-pileser III (compare verse 29)
the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave cPul a thousand talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, that he might help him eto confirm his hold on the royal power. 2 Kings 17:6
The Fall of Israel
6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria fcaptured Samaria, gand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria hand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of iGozan, and in the cities of jthe Medes.
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